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FoodForCause

What does Food For Cause do for the community?

Problem

  • Kansas City does not have a resource to connect food suppliers and organizations that provide food stuffs to the community.

  • Many grocery stores, and restaurants throw away food that could go to good use.

    • Some of these items will expire soon.
    • Others items may have damaged packaging or other small defects that do not affect the quality of the product, but the store is still unable to sell the items.

  • A large amount of food is unnecessarily wasted.

  • Our community needs food assistance programs to thrive and care for those in need.

Solution

  • Food For Cause provides a platform to connect local community outreach programs, like food banks and kitchens, with companies that have food to donate.
  • This will help to reduce food waste, put the food to good use, and strengthen the community.

How Does it work?

  • Grocery Stores, restaurants, and other businesses login and then post their available food items (including quantity, and expiration date).
  • Food banks, and kitchens may reserve and pick up items.
  • Unreserved items that are nearing expiration will be tweeted and text (SMS) to let the community know about their availability.

What powers FoodForCause?

  • Node/ Express
  • MySQL
  • Sequelize
  • Heroku
  • Passport.js User Authentication

Updates

Please Feel Free To Submit A Pull Request!

ISSUES WITH DESIGN

  • These issues seem to stem from the way that the info is centered on the top image.
    • Possible solution: Make the FoodForCause text at the top a permanent part of the img, or fixed position, and then have the rest of the stuff centered in the remaining space. (Thoughts, Meg?)
    • OCT.21: Perhaps remove the bio section at the bottom of every page and add an about us page with the pics/bio, also add a link for bug reporting, and a problems/soution/detailed description of the site (it should match the readme, and there is a sectiona about that below).
    • add.html
      • top of page is cut off, can't see 'food for cause' title
    • available.html
      • The papge starts further down than 'view.html' ... maybe an extra div?
  • Oct.21:
    • The Food For Cause title and the menu bar are not fixed, and they get pushed up and cut off when there are more than a few results (a problem on all pages)
    • The search results overflow and break the page style

Nice To Have:

  • Calculate remaining time until items expire, and display it use it for twilio / tweets
  • Allow users to reserve a certain amount (lbs.) of an item
  • Display the remaining amount of goods
  • Alerts:
    • https://www.twilio.com/
      • Send Texts for notifications about specific items
    • Tweets to notify of available items that will expire soon
  • Authentication
    • Reestablish (Disabled for ease of Presentation)
  • Testing